concomitance
Americannoun
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the quality or relation of being concomitant.
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Roman Catholic Church. the coexistence of the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharistic bread.
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existence or occurrence together or in connection with another
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a thing that exists in connection with another
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Christian theol the doctrine that the body and blood of Christ are present in the Eucharist
Etymology
Origin of concomitance
From the Medieval Latin word concomitantia, dating back to 1525–35. See concomitant, -ance
Example Sentences
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Nature made health, and at the same time it was necessary by a kind of concomitance that the source of diseases should be opened up.
From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by E.M. Huggard
That is, the relation of stimulus and response is either reduced to plain cause and effect or else is rejected altogether and supplanted by a bare concomitance of the physical and mental series.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
And mere frequency, much more constancy of concomitance, raises a presumption of causal connexion, and looking out for it is valuable as a mode of reconnoitring.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
Yet it comes to be by concomitance, because it serves a greater good in relation to the universe.
From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by E.M. Huggard
It is very important to remark that in all this no new meaning has been given to the word "concomitance."
From An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton
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